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VEGAS LEX will be a partner of the PHARMASTRATEGIES-2016 summit*, which will take place in Moscow on October 5–6, 2015. The event annually convenes all the major players of the pharmaceutical industry, including Russian and foreign pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers and distributors of medical products, pharmacy chains, as well as public authorities and industry associations.

The main highlight of the business program of the summit will be the VII International Conference, What is happening in the pharmaceutical market? which will include the following sessions:

• Macroeconomic forecasts 2016: investment strategies

• Regulatory policy in the pharmaceutical industry

• Main questions and regulatory challenges that affect the development of the pharmaceutical industry

• Public procurement of pharmaceutical products. What hampers government regulations realization?

• Sector switch to GMP: essential problems

• Improving promotion performance by using IT‐technologies

• Russian manufacturers’ essential problems and measures to be taken in order to stimulate Russian pharmaceutical manufacturing

• Import substitution in the pharmaceutical manufacturing: searching for effective solutions to realization of government policy and the effectiveness of government support

• Investment appeal of the Russian pharmaceutical market for foreign companies

• Business development, M&A

• Parallel imports of pharmaceuticals: risks of the implementation

• Creating a government monopoly in the immunobiological, antiretroviral, antimycobacterial and blood medical products market

• Medical devices market: obstacles to development

Maria Borzova, Manager of Life Sciences projects at VEGAS LEX, will speak during the plenary discussion, Regulatory policy in the pharmaceutical industry, covering the key aspects of the industry’s regulation.

Other speakers invited to participate in the discussion include head of the FAS public services and retail oversight Timofei Nizhegorodtsev; Director of the Department for Pharmacological Support and Regulation of the Circulation of Medical Supplies at the Ministry of Healthcare Yelena Maksimkina; Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko; Anna Soltitskaya, Head of Regulatory Affairs Department of Besins Healthcare Rus, the Region CIS/EAEU, member of the Eurasian Economic Commission Working Group for the Regulatory Act on Registration and Examination of Medicines; Executive Director of the Union of Professional Pharmaceutical Organizations Lilia Titova; Executive Director of the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Vladimir Shipkov; Executive Director of InPharma Association Vadim Kukava; and General Director of the Association of Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Viktor Dmitriyev.

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* The conference is organized by the company infor-media Russia, with Pharmvestnik acting as the general media partner of the conference. Other partners of the event include the Association of Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the Association of Pharmacy Management and Marketing. For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.what.pharma-conf.ru.

For more information on VEGAS LEX’s services in the pharmaceutical market, please go here.